“Mom, there’s a boy at school that I think might like me. When he’s not trying to trip me, he talks to me about sports I know nothing about and tells me jokes that aren’t really funny. I just laugh along anyway because I don’t want to hurt his feelings.” Anna-11

I’ll teach her to memorize every baseball team by division the next time I see her. And I’ll teach her that at 11, it’s really time to start becoming superficial, and she should only use it on the cute ones. It works every time.